Modern mechanism, exhibiting the latest progress in machines, motors, and the transmission of power, being a supplementary volume to Appletons' cyclopaedia of applied mechanics (1892)
Benjamin, Park, 1849-1922 · New York, D. Appleton · leaf 831
he engineers on the rotary and locomotive wliich |«shes it, and by ahand wlieel can alter the position of the hood that directs the stream of snow to either side.He has also charge of the ice breaker and flanger for cleaning tiie rails and flanges after themain body of the snow has been removed by… … Fig. 2.—Elevation. Fig. 3.—Shovel at work. movement of the front truck wheels, and consequently maintains a fixed position about halfan inch above the top of the rail. The ice-breaker and the flanger. which follows it, can beraised and lowered by means of a small steam cylinder, which is supplied…
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